{"wiki":{"id":57,"slug":"carol-cost-tracker","entity_type":"app","entity_id":"carol-cost-tracker","title":"Carol Cost Tracker","prose_md":"## About\n\nCarol Cost Tracker is the financial lens on Carol's AI operations — it monitors how much API usage the ecosystem is consuming and what that costs. Every time an agent like [[agt_010]] or [[agt_012]] calls an external AI model, that interaction has a price tag. Carol Cost Tracker exists to make sure nobody is flying blind on spending. It captures usage data, breaks it down, and presents it in a way that helps the team understand where the money is going.\n\nOwned by [[agt_021]], the organisation's Head of Finance, this app sits at the intersection of operational awareness and budget control. It complements [[carol-costs]], which provides a monitoring dashboard, by focusing on the granular tracking side — recording individual API calls, tallying token counts, and attributing costs to specific agents or processes. The app runs on port 7070 and is restricted to admin-level access, since cost data is sensitive internal information.\n\n## Usage Patterns\n\nCarol Cost Tracker is most useful during financial reviews and when investigating unexpected spikes in API spending. For example, if [[agt_021]] notices that this month's AI costs have jumped 40%, they can open the tracker to drill into which agents or services drove the increase — perhaps a new batch process introduced by [[agt_012]] is making far more model calls than anticipated. That insight feeds directly into decisions about optimising prompts, adjusting rate limits, or reallocating budget.\n\nThe app is also referenced during planning. Before greenlighting a new initiative, [[agt_021]] or [[agt_024]] might check historical cost patterns to estimate how much a proposed feature will add to the monthly bill. In day-to-day operations, it serves as the quiet bookkeeper — always recording, ready when someone asks \"how much did that cost us?\"","namesake_json":"{}","profile_pic_path":"","source_hash":"e0d652c7ed61d7191426a911e82394831e3d0e9102da33a02385b80ac3634b73","status":"active","last_generated_at":"2026-06-28 03:27:02","created_at":"2026-06-28 03:27:02","updated_at":"2026-06-28 03:27:02"},"facts":{"id":"carol-cost-tracker","name":"Azure Cost Tracker","port":7070,"url":"https://carol.denken-labs.com/dev/costs/","description":"Azure infrastructure consumption tracker - subscription EUR spend by service/resource/resource-group, daily+monthly charts, EUR 50 budget bar. Data via VM managed identity (IMDS). NOT the LLM Cost Monitor (7174).","owner":"agt_021","dir_name":"costs","card_group":"content","is_public":0,"access_level":"admin","log_name":"costs","gen_nginx":1,"user_admins":"[]"}}